Filigree is a technique that involves fine goldsmith manufacturing threads with a precious metal, usually gold or silver, and they do fine work in jewelry.

The gem of the jewel light watermark is quintessential running wires through very thin gold or silver twisted, resulting jewelry pieces are made, in a pattern similar to lace. It is an ancient technique known by various peoples of pre- Columbian America whose work was widely known in the area of Mesoamerica.